Posted on 06/08/2012 11:19:19 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
I made an interesting observation here in Southern California a few minutes ago.
Background:
We are on vacation here after seeing my #3 son coming back from an overseas deployment in the Marines. FWIW, it was with the 1/4 on a MEU "booze Cruise" in the Western Pacific. I backed into a support pole in the underground garage at the hotel yesterday and made wuite a dent in the passenger door of the rental. I took it to a body shop here in San Clemente so I could get an idea of how much it's gonna cost me.
While waiting for the owner to get me an estimate I was looking at the various cars in the shop. I saw only ONE car with an 0bama sticker, and 5 with Romney or Republican/Libertarian stickers. While yacking with the owner we got to talking about government and he asked me where I was originally from. I told him Texas, and he then told me that if he could get out from under his mortgage here, he'd move his business to the DFW area and get out of here. Quite a few of the business owners here on the beach area have left because of the regulations and taxes. He detests 0bama, as do most business owners here.
I don't think California will be a complete shoo-in for 0bama this fall.
LOL!
The only way Obama would lose California is if he announced he found Christ, became a Conservative, dumped Biden for Sarah Palin, and jumped to the GOP.
As I am sure you have heard before, you were in a Republican part of the state.
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I would wager that welfare recipients far outnumber small business owners.
I would wager that welfare recipients far outnumber small business owners.
Oh yes we can. I'm still stuck in the middle of the People's Democratic Republic of Illinois.
I lived in the Bay Area for 3.5 years (1997 to 2000). I moved out of CA after my networth had gone down by $2,500 and we wanted to start a family.
Rental car companies will charge you a rental fee for the time the car is in the shop for repairs. If it is out 2 weeks getting fixed, you owe them for that two weeks. So your estimate doesn’t begin to cover what you will be charged.
The LA basin and SF bay area will elect BHO, because of the way the districts are drawn.
There is a red/blue map of CA for the last election, it is stunning of distorted the voting blocks are.
Being in Santa Barbara, I see lots of BHO bumper stickers, what is different is how many rabid and out spoken the Romney supporters have become.
I read or heard from Michael Barone about each state having their Bellwesther areas. As that area goes so goes the State as the saying goes. It was mentioned that Fresno area is California’s Bellweather area. So watch Fresno — any Fresnoites out there to check in?
With San Jose and San Diego waking up on their ballot initiative last Tuesday (a vote similar to Wis btw) I’d say the tides are turning here — but I sure don’t see it here in LA.
On the subject of stickers.......I have noticed several "Obama 2012" but not one "Obama-Biden 2012".
Best wishes to you and thanks to your sons for their service.
I’m in LA County, in the more conservative southwestern corner of it. No Romney yard signs or bumper stickers at all. Some Obama yard signs up already.
I will be moving to CA in two weeks so you will have one more conservative to share your suffering.
I wouldn't say never. As long as Obozo is defeated in November, CA should lose a lot of the under-table federal debt support it has received from the Fed. The state will be forced into the situation WI and MI are digging out of. Those states swung republican when they got bad enough.
Illinois may be the state simply eats itself completely.
This election is not going to be a blow out as some of you assume. First of all it is June. Second of all, we have a Republican Candidate that nobody wants. Third of all our country is split. The reason that Walker did well is because the Democrats who voted for Walker (and yes there were many) thought it was bull crap that this was even happening. It is going to be a very close race.
While it is unlikely Obama will lose California, the GOP is going to do better than most think. Already the chances for Dems to pick up an extra Congressional seat has been set back when the targeted seat for a pick-up ended up with two Republicans in the runoff! The Dems are kicking themselves for their new idiotic voting system.
Also, Californians are seeing day in and day out the failures of their Democratrically-run state and more independents are turning against the Dems. Plus, illegal Mexicans have for years actually been going back home because there’s little or not work for them.
Plus, look at the votes in San Jose and San Diego. Voters there “got it.” The margins were staggering. I think someone could run for governor and other high offices on a platform of bringing public sector unions under control and cutting back benefits and win in California. Clearly the public is totally fed up with the fat cat public sector unions and workers.
Plus, the failure of the cigarette tax to pass shows the California is not completely and utterly lost. That was a good sign. The voters could see through the phony claim that the money would be used for cancer research. Yeah, right.
Which city? I was born in Napa and grew up in Vallejo.
I (in Santa Monica) am afraid to put up yard signs. I have a large window that faces the street and a rock was thrown into over (I guess) some yard signs I had for a local election that was NON-PARTISAN council seat.
“With San Jose and San Diego waking up on their ballot initiative last Tuesday (a vote similar to Wis btw) I’d say the tides are turning here — but I sure don’t see it here in LA.”
I live in San Jose, and it’s not quite as lefty-looney as SF or Berkeley. But for quite a while I used to describe myself as “one of twenty-three conservatives in the Bay Area”, and it seemed to be pretty close to true. But since BHO came along, it seems I run into more “out and proud” conservatives here in the Bay Area than I used to.
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